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Genre/Form: | African American non-fiction History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Holt, Thomas C. (Thomas Cleveland), 1942- Children of fire. New York, NY : Hill and Wang, 2010 (OCoLC)747306232 |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Thomas C Holt |
ISBN: | 9780809067138 0809067137 9780809034178 0809034174 |
OCLC Number: | 555656530 |
Description: | xvii, 438 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
Contents: | List of illustrations -- Preface -- 1: Middle passages, middlemen : Europe, Africa, America, and the slave trade -- 2: Many thousands born: the roots of African America -- 3: Slaves and citizens: African America in the age of Revolution -- 4: New birth of freedom: the destruction of slavery and Reconstruction of Black life -- 5: Ragtime: race and nation at the dawn of the twentieth century -- 6: Second emancipation: the great migrations of the twentieth century -- 7: Second Reconstruction: the freedom movement -- 8: Citizens of the nation, citizens of the world: African America in the twenty-first century -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index. |
Other Titles: | History of African Americans |
Responsibility: | Thomas C. Holt. |
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Abstract:
Ordinary people do not experience history as it is taught by historians. The same people who lived through the Civil War and the eradication of slavery also dealt with the hardships of Reconstruction, so why do we almost always treat them separately? This title challenges this convention to tell the story of generations of African Americans.
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